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Arrrggg this is so difficult. I'll probably find mistakes after I'm done with the thing.
Cobalt's Top 20 of 2003
01 Ferry Corsten - Right of Way
02 Ferry Corsten - Indigo
03 Paul van Dyk - Nothing But You (Paul's 'Original' Mix)
04 Agnelli & Nelson pres Ultra - Holding On To Nothing (Club Mix)
05 Tiesto - Traffic
06 POS - Remember (Summer Sun)
07 Mauro Picotto - New Time New Place
08 James Holden - Nothing (93 Returning Mix)
09 Terry Bones & Fred Baker pres. Water Planet - Introspection (John Askew mix)
10 Paul van Dyk vs Second Sun - Crush
11 Hemstock & Jennings feat. Adam White - Reverence
12 Paul van Dyk feat Vega 4 - Time of our Lives (PvD Club Mix)
13 Questia - Nexus Asia
14 Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Sweeping Strings Mix)
15 Andain - Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)
16 Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock (F Massif Remix)
17 Unkle - In A State (Sasha Remix)
18 Paul van Dyk - Connected (Moto_05 Mix)
19 Dogzilla - Dogzilla (Mistress Barbara Remix)
20 Michael Splint pres Eruption - I Feel Free (DJ Choose & F's That Mucho Remix)
A few words about three of the top choices:
Right of Way is a massive, unprecedented production that narrowly takes the top spot for me. It marks a completed shift in Ferry's sound, one only begun with Punk and the Dance Valley Theme. And as we know, Ferry's sound soon becomes trance's sound. It represents one of the few innovative production directions in trance today.
Indigo has never left my decks since I bought it. It's such a crystal clear, spotlessly uplifting track, miles above the other uplifting crap that usually rotates. I never understood why it didn't catch on as a favorite. It could just be that I'm obsessed.
Traffic, the accidental track that started merely as part of Tiesto's remix of Faithfulness, has taken his production in a radically new direction, and trance along with it. I think Traffic will be almost single-handedly responsible for the rise of a new Tech-Trance sound in 2004, with Marco V and Tiesto at its forefront. And what it does to a crowd is just sick.
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